On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 5:30 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 07:27:30PM -0000, Peter Oliver wrote: > > On 28 November 2025 19:07:22 GMT, Neal Gompa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> On Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM Neal Gompa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> > Is there a compelling reason that we shouldn't consider migrating to > > >> > zstd in an upcoming Fedora release? > > > > I don't think this is compelling, but we'd need to do something about the > > issue mentioned in > > <https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/QX5CIBDNRUCEJ3KGYKW3VWQPLCPBPS2N/>. > > The issue described there is the literal suffix in: > > %ghost %{_mandir}/man8/sendmail.8.gz > > A similar issue would occur in all the packages using alternatives and > managing a man page through that. In general alternatives are a PITA. > Fortunately, we only have a handful of such packages. > Those would need to be adjusted to use the new suffix in %ghost > and possibly also adjust the way that the symlink is installed. > > > > It'll speed up stuff since zstd is a lot > > > faster than gzip, though. > > > > Do you have numbers? I tried setting brp-compress to zstd recently, and > > was surprised that it seemed to be a lot slower for me. I didn't look into > > it carefully, though, so perhaps I was making some mistake. > > Yeah, some real numbers would be nice. >
My assumption of speed was mostly based on experiences from other things switching to zstd, I haven't benched man pages in packaging specifically, and I think it'd be worth doing a test with some rawhide packages since I added a way to tweak this in redhat-rpm-config. Any ideas of some good representative packages to test with? -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
